The airport of the future is here. Surprisingly, it doesn't need humans

Singapore's Changi Airport is blazing a trail when it comes to automation

Imagine landing at a major airport and the only human official you meet on your way through the terminal is a customs officer.

Singapore’s Changi Airport, voted the world’s best for the past six years by Skytrax, is pursuing that goal of extensive automation with such vigor that it built an entire terminal to help test the airport bots of the future.

Here’s an idea of what Asia’s second-busiest international airport is implementing.

As a plane joins the long line to land, it’s detected, identified and monitored by an array of cameras and technology that bypass the traditional control tower. Once at the